I am a historian, writer, and professor of architecture based in Los Angeles, California. My research and teaching focus on the practices, profession, and education of architects, as well as architects’ role in shaping urban and global inequities. My first book, Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire (UC Press, 2025), traces the rise of US-based corporate architecture and engineering firms, such as AECOM, and it analyzes their impact on professions and global political economies.
I am an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona. From 2018 to 2023, I was an Assistant Professor of Architecture History at the University of New Mexico. In 2023-24, I was the Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and in 2020-21, the Barbara Thom Fellow at the Huntington Library in California. My writing and research has been awarded the Kristine Fallon Prize by the International Archive of Women in Architecture in 2022, and I was named to the Architecture League of New York’s “American Roundtable” in 2020 for research about rural communities.
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I received my Ph.D. in Architecture History from UCLA as well as undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Norwich University in Vermont.
Outside of the academy, I currently serve on the Board of Directors of The Architecture Lobby as well as on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education.